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28th percentile
Serial founder and CTO building Sharpei, a seed-stage fintech redefining retail lending
Credibility
Operator · 57th percentile
- Current Founder and CTO of Sharpei, an active fintech/retail platform company.
- Past founder of Yakk, The Eco Host, and Progressive Blue Tech.
- Sharpei and Yakk both had co-founders, confirming co-founded companies.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Founder and CTO of Sharpei, an active fintech/retail platform company.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of Yakk, The Eco Host, and Progressive Blue Tech.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Sharpei and Yakk both had co-founders, confirming co-founded companies.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified Stack Overflow account with 146 reputation.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Sharpei has raised $1.8M in total funding and Yakk raised $545.3K, totaling approximately $2.3M across founded companies.
What you likely need
You're a seed-stage fintech founder with strong technical credibility and a compelling circular-economy angle, but you need to accelerate your fundraising narrative and break into the US investor network. The highest-leverage Festival events for you are intimate dinners and roundtables that put you in the room with US fintech seed funds, YC alumni who can de-risk your application, and GTM operators who can help you scale merchant acquisition. Building your public profile through thought-leadership positioning alongside these intros will compound your inbound deal flow and press visibility.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA seed-stage fintech founder dinner with partners from Fin Capital, Anthemis, and QED to pressure-test Sharpei's unit-economics story and unlock warm intros into their US portfolio networks
- fundraisingA YC fintech alumni roundtable with founders from batches like W21/S22 who've taken rental- or subscription-commerce companies through the application to sharpen Sharpei's YC pitch and circular-economy framing
- positioningA Sifted 'Top CTO in Europe' cohort dinner bringing together recognized technical founders to co-develop thought-leadership angles around circular-economy fintech and coordinate on press and content distribution
- introsA happy hour for O-1 visa founders actively expanding from Europe into the US market to swap playbooks on investor access, entity structuring, and accelerating US merchant pipelines
- hiringA recruiting dinner for seed-stage fintech founders looking to hire their first senior GTM or sales lead, with operators who've scaled merchant acquisition at companies like Divido, Paidy, or Hokodo
- positioningA technical founder roundtable for builders publishing open-source anti-fraud or lending infrastructure tooling, to trade distribution strategies and identify co-marketing partners who can amplify Sharpei's developer credibility
- tacticalA tactical workshop for sub-10-person seed-stage founders on optimizing Crunchbase and PitchBook profiles, data-room hygiene, and investor discoverability ahead of a formal raise